Monday, December 14, 2015

Voila! There you go, I happened to see this
subtitle after reading the book and I wasn’t surprised. This one is a perfect
Bollywood script filled with love, betrayal and redemption as Ravi himself says.
I had read and reviewed God
is A Gamer an year ago as a part of Blogadda’s Book Review programme. I
must say that this book stands up to my expectations going by my previous
reading experience, not that they were very high mind you. Page turner, easy
read, filmy plot all no doubt. The other reviews may give you spoilers, but I
am not game! Whenever I read books of these kinds I still feel that there is a big
lacuna which our Indian writers fail to look at while writing stories, oh sorry
they are meant to be scripts. That frankly though doesn’t stop me from reading
them, every time I come across one in a bookstore I tell myself “Let me read this, maybe this is THE ONE!” and every time I end up more than disappointed.

“Oh that’s an another Indian author, you
don’t need to read that book to know the story!”

So say some of my reader friends. Before I refute such statements I am waiting for
that right kind of substance from an Indian author of today, someone who can give me
that in at least a few pages of their books. I did not find it in Aditya’s
character when he professes his love for his wife after all his misgivings, I
did not find it in Shreya’s conviction to author a book, I did not find it in
Maya’s anger after all the angel she is portrayed to be, I did not find it in
Sanjay’s prevarication against his friend. All of them are forgettable! But
there were moments in the book, with real life names here and there in the storyline
like salt and pepper in the soup, this sort of amused me more than increasing
my curiosity, I don’t give a hoot even if they are real life incidents. When
there is no good grammar and language, what use is a twist and turn in the
tale???I seriously wished this was
given more attention.

There was one line that impressed me:

“Nothing in life is more wretched than the
mind of a man conscious of his guilt”

I finished the book in a couple of hours
which was another brownie point, if you want to count it as one. A
honest review in my opinion is not just about sugar coated words to make the author
or publisher or a sponsor feel good. If I am able to put across the fact that I
expect something better out of Ravi Subramanian this review stands justified.

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